Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Post row - peatland
Kilbeg, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilbeg
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.22759, -7.23958
- SMR number
- OF026-061----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The site (L 3.56m; Wth 1.6m) is orientated NNW-SSE on the field surface It consists of sixteen stakes (diam. 0.02-0.05m) set at angles of up to 70°. The elements lie between 0.04-0.77m apart and are in moderate to good condition. Woodworking is evidenced by a metal-cut chisel point on one stake. This site is exposed in well-humified Sphagnum peat with a high level of Eriophorum.
Compiled by: Irish Archaeological Wetland Unit (University College Dublin).
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
- Structure - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Road - class 1 togherunder 1 mi
- Road - class 2 togherunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.